Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

["Cantor, Scott" <>]

> I wanted to demonstrate that is possible to create a massively scalable
> app in a short period of time with little infrastructure to manage. The
> metadata isn't signed, but that could be done rather easily I would think.

If you mean online signing that's pretty much a non-starter for security 
reasons if nothing else, so once you take that out of the picture, it just 
doesn't take anything even that complicated. All you need is Apache and some 
files, as people have demonstrated.

What I noted on the last call was that CDNs seem to have a model that is very 
much specific to browsers: they don't care about HA for any given IP address, 
only that one of the addresses the browser gets is working. That model 
doesn't work for most non-browser HTTP clients, so I'm not sure any CDN-like 
approach will work terribly well in practice unless the failures (and by 
failure I don't mean actual outage but even just taking nodes out of service 
aggressively) are very rare.

-- Scott